Terrill Preparatory School - Terrillian Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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UQ' 'EQIBIECQE' Say, 'A-a-a-h' ! HE. name of Mrs. Walling stands for music in the Terrill School. It is Mrs. Walling who annually turns out a credit- able Glee Club and Little Boys' Chorus from some of the most unpromising material imaginable. It is Mrs. W'alling who leads the orchestra in chapel and who thumps that resounding chord on the piano which brings every body to his feet in one big surge. Although she conducts no regular classes, Mrs. Walling is as busy during the day as the next one, giving private lessons in piano, mandolin, guitar and violin. Her efforts in making the voices of a bunch of huskies who originally couldn't sing but did sound plausible, are nothing short of heroic. For a while, in the early part of this year it looked as if Mrs. Walling was going to be the captain of a new kind of ball team, only this one would have a W where the first ul usually is. By infinite patience she got her proteges into a condition bordering on the vocally possible and impressed them with the fact that there's nearly as much difference between A and D on the scale as on the bi-weekly report slip. ln a remarkably short space of time, Mrs. Walling has reduced the num- ber of separate voices from about twenty to the regular four. That's achievement enough for- any one. 21

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Q ku: 515515113 FE-E1 E+-jf..-Z-'QUE Q HERE YOU ! ! HERE are more ways than one to skin a cat. Did you know that? Well, it's so. Also, did you know a potato could fall out of a wagon in different ways? If you have any doubts about these profound axioms, perhaps Mr. Adkisson could dispel them. Now these weighty subjects really have a practical application-proof-both mathematics and baseball. According to Coach joshua, if you can't get a hit, get hitg in either case the result is the same, the cat is skinned, and a man is on first. lf you can't teach quadratics, inject them: again the result is obtained and the potato is out of the wagon. Mr. Adkisson is a University of Virginia man. While in college, one out of his many sports was gym work. At this, he and his teammates became so proficient that they made a tour of the coast putting on exhibitions before interested audiences. It is conserva- tive to say that Mr. Adkisson was the star until his bold daring led him to heights too precipitous and an untimely fall resulted in his breaking both shoulders. This, of course, ended his career as a gymnast, but soon his versatile genius sought other fields of action and we next hear of him on the diamond. Mr. Adkisson is one of those rare beings called a. character. His fearlessness and intrepidity are well known throughout the school and woe to the boy who misbehaves in his presence, for Mr. Adkisson evidently believes that action is more effective than words. S. L. R. 20 ,,, C,-5.5. 551.9 1915 Q Q ,

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l r Dog Gone! MAN as handsome as the above picture would indicate, should by rights haunt a photographer, instead of kicking over the traces about having his picture made, as this cam- era-shy person did. He threatened to ruin the book by not allowing his picture to go in. He said he had a reputation as a tough guy to maintain and besides that, a flossy photograph might break in on his run of luck. With much coaxing, he was finally brought around and since then he has been one of the staunchest supporters of this book, even going so far as to coerce his ge- ography class into getting one apiece. What Mr. Hammond says to the little kids goes, to a certain ex- tent, but from September to November what he says to the football fellows goes absolutely. I-le's the czar, martinet and chief engineer of our football steam roller. Dressed in a woolen jersey and an old pair of baseball trousers, topped by a white felt hat of surpassing dinkiness, he is at his best. His coaching is Billy Sundayism applied to footballg action, tongue-lashing and slang carried to their highest degrees of perfection, all directed by a consciousness trained in every department and ramification of the game. in ZZ QL' EE